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Image descriptions concentrate primarily on "jock influence" and musical tastes. Eliot rated "quasi-jock," Winthrop "arm-chair jock", while Adams scored "non-jock, honors majors, with more cosmopolitan interests...
...dissatisfaction with Crimson coverage for some time. Our critics cite the coverage of football (particularly the quarterback situation), the post-season basketball analysis of last spring, and the coverage of basketball during the present season as evidence that we are negatively inclined toward athletics at Harvard and "anti-jock" in our attitude. Nothing could be further from the truth...
...addition to the academic difficulties, Vujovic was very sensitive to the problems of being a foreigner and a soccer player in an American university. He was upset by the "jock image" imposed on Harvard's foreign-born soccer players...
Despite the unhappiness with the "jock image," most of the foreign players at Harvard played this fall because soccer is a link with their backgrounds, Vujovic said. "When we got together for a little soccer, it gave us a touch of home," he said...
...unsettling day for us, and for the perplexed jock from West Heights High, U.S.A., or the analytic wonk, with eight "fives" on his Advanced Placement exams. That spring, my roommates were up late one night when the phone rang. It was a friend at Radcliffe looking for her own roommate; she was hysterical, but did manage to say that the United States and Russia were at war. And she was serious, too. My roommates said okay, she hung up, and they sat around calmly discussing whether to wake me and tell me that the world was about to be enveloped...